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Prepare for private placement scope, business development, customer profiles, investor qualification, offering materials, recommendations, records, purchase instructions, and 55-question pacing.
Series 82 is FINRA's Private Securities Offerings Representative Exam. Candidates have 90 minutes for 50 scored questions plus 5 unscored pretest items, and the passing score is 70%. HiraEdu maps preparation to FINRA's four private-offering representative job functions.
Series 82 is narrow but rule-sensitive. Half of the scored exam focuses on seeking business for the broker-dealer from customers and potential customers.
Series 82 assesses competency for Private Securities Offerings Representatives.
The exam has 50 scored multiple-choice questions plus 5 unidentified pretest items, for 55 total questions.
Candidates have 1 hour and 30 minutes and need a 70% passing score.
Candidates need FINRA member or applicable SRO sponsorship, and SIE is a corequisite for Private Securities Offerings Representative registration.
FINRA describes Series 82 as qualifying representatives for solicitation and sale of private placement securities products as part of a primary offering. The plan keeps that scope separate from broader Series 7 sales activity, municipal or government securities, DPP securities, resales, and secondary-market trading.
The first FINRA function accounts for 25 of 50 scored questions. Candidates should practice customer outreach, business development rules, communications, offering discussions, documentation, permitted activity boundaries, and when another registration category may be needed.
Opening accounts and making recommendations require customer profile, investor qualification, suitability, risk tolerance, liquidity, investment objectives, tax status, disclosure, transfer, recordkeeping, subscription, and confirmation checks. Those workflows protect the private offering process from becoming only product memorization.
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The Series 82, Private Securities Offerings Representative Exam, assesses whether an entry-level representative can solicit and sell private placement securities products as part of a primary offering. FINRA lists 50 scored multiple-choice items, 1 hour and 30 minutes of testing time, a 70% passing score, a $100 fee, and SIE as a corequisite. The content outline adds 5 unidentified pretest items, so candidates see 55 total questions. Candidates must be associated with and sponsored by a FINRA member firm or other applicable SRO member firm to be eligible. FINRA's outline allocates 25 scored items to seeking business, 9 to opening accounts after evaluating customer profiles and investment objectives, 13 to providing investment information, recommendations, transfers, and records, and 3 to verifying purchase instructions, processing, completing, and confirming transactions. HiraEdu builds Series 82 preparation around private placement scope, primary offering limits, Regulation D concepts, accredited investor and suitability review, communications, customer profiles, subscription documents, offering materials, escrow and funds flow, confirmations, records, and Prometric scheduling readiness.
Series 82 is the Private Securities Offerings Representative Exam for candidates who solicit and sell private placement securities products as part of a primary offering.
The exam has 50 scored multiple-choice questions and 5 unidentified pretest items, for 55 total questions.
Candidates have 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete the exam.
FINRA lists the Series 82 passing score as 70%.
Yes. FINRA states that candidates must be associated with and sponsored by a FINRA member firm or other applicable SRO member firm, and SIE is a corequisite.
Use FINRA's 25, 9, 13, and 3 item allocations to plan review for business development, account opening, recommendations and records, and purchase processing.
Review primary offering boundaries, private placement products, investor qualification, permitted solicitations, registration exemptions, resale limits, and when Series 7 or another registration may be required.
Connect offering materials, investor representations, account information, risk disclosures, suitability notes, purchase instructions, escrow or funds flow, confirmations, and books and records.
Practice the full 90-minute structure and review misses by function so the high-volume seeking-business area receives enough attention.
Use the guide to self-serve, or talk to a coordinator if you need help mapping timelines, official requirements, or troubleshooting day-of logistics.
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